1. Erica Henderson is an American three-time Eisner Award-winning comics artist and animator, known for her work on The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and Jughead, and for her animation work on Venture Bros.
11 Facts About Erica Henderson
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Erica Henderson was a fan of Archie Comics, and names Dan DeCarlo and Samm Schwartz among her earliest influences for their distinctive styles.
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Erica Henderson was a fan of the DC Comics series Young Heroes in Love, which showed her how superheroes could be adapted into different genres and story types.
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Erica Henderson began her work on that program doing storyboards for animatics, which involved preparing backgrounds by converting background artist Denny Finkel's line drawings into Flash animation so that they could then be sent to Korea to be painted.
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Erica Henderson later worked as an art director in the video game industry.
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Erica Henderson illustrated Marvel Comics' Squirrel Girl for its first 37 issues before leaving the series in March 2018, although she continued to illustrate the series' covers.
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Graeme Virtue of The Guardian praised her artwork on the series, saying, "The real selling point is the gorgeous, cartoon-influenced art by Erica Henderson, which looks like nothing else Marvel is putting out at the moment".
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Erica Henderson reunited with Squirrel Girl writer Ryan North to create a YA graphic novel titled Danger and Other Unknown Risks.
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Erica Henderson begins drawing a page by doing quick thumbnail drawings in a sketchbook before doing the pencils digitally in a computer, which she says makes the process faster.
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Erica Henderson uses the digital drawing program Paint Tool SAI, which she appreciates for its line feel, and for its easier, pared-down structure compared to Photoshop, which she uses to print out art in blue line.
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When working on Squirrel Girl, Erica Henderson employed a template different from the ones she uses for other books, which had extra space at the bottom for text.